Review: JLA: A League of One: Deluxe Edition

JLA: A League of One: Deluxe Edition by Christopher Moeller
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

A fun Wonder Woman story backed up by an interesting yet ultimately confusing sci-fi tale about the JLA piloting mech units. Good bang for your buck if you get the two together in this edition, but the first story is really all you need.

A League of One: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

In this first story, Wonder Woman knows she's the only one who can save the world from a reawakened dragon, so she's gotta take out the members of the Justice League so they don't get in the way. It's a nice, simple story brought to life by gorgeous paintings. I loved studying these pages and just absorbing all the details. Beautifully rendered in such a way that you get this gorgeous fantasy story while still making it believable that the JLA are involved.

The gnomes are delightful, as are WW's two helpers. The colours are gorgeous, and the story is told well. A fun DC fantasy story.

Cold Steel: ⭐⭐

Generally terrible.

I liked it at first - beautiful artwork, and strange looking alien creatures. But as the story progressed it became increasingly difficult to hold the thread of what was happening and by the end I had no idea what had transpired.

A lot of work put into the mech designs for them to not really see a lot of logical action, and there was no clear reason they played such a role. It felt forced and as a consequence the story suffered.

Still gorgeous art, and I'd happily flick through just to marvel over the colours, but the story leaves a lot to be desired.


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